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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

Starting my next Cross-County trip: Finishing California to an AGR Roomette home: A Local Fastrack-Effected trip to the Airport

Greetings from the UnitedClub at JFK Airport! I’m here awaiting for boarding of my flight to San Francisco (in the lounge courtesy of my AGR Select+ status). The trip I’m about to embark on is a three and a half week trip I’m entitling finishing California to an AGR Loop. The first nearly two weeks […]

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Transit Adventures

A Round-Trip on the New Jersey Shore Beach Express for a Station-to-Station Bike Ride

The best time to plan a day photographing the southern diesel shuttle end of the North Jersey Coast Line (not including rush hour) is during a Summer weekend when the frequency of the Shuttle trains increases from roughly every other hour to hourly to  accommodate the influx of beach goers. In addition this year there […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg’s Funeral Train At His Station

I think the title tells all about my adventure today to stop at the Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Station to pay my respects to a great public transportation leader as he was transferred from motorcade to train at his namesake station for a very short ceremony with the New Jersey Transit Police Honor Guard, and only his […]

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Transit Adventures

A Port Jervis Line Train Ride to Tuxedo and a 50 mile Bike Ride Home via Some More Stations

Today I decided it was finally time to go and get some more rail stations on New Jersey Transit except by using my bike to get between far apart stations instead of walking like I normally do. The original plan was to go with my bike and get every station on the Morristown Line between […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Park to Wash. Hts.-168th St aboard the S (first passenger to enter and leave Beach 105 St) and R1-9s

I finished my last Rockaway Here We Come! (Again) post yesterday on the platform at Rockaway Park waiting for the first revenue service departure. The R1-9s ran this route in regular revenue service although they bypassed all stations from Howard Beach to Euclid Avenue. I road from Broad Channel to Euclid, taking the first two Shuttles […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Here We Come! (Again)

June 28, 1956: Today, for the First Time Since Sandy: As of Noon today the subway is fully an officially back with service to every station! The MTA reopened the line in style sending out the Museum train first full of dignitaries (from the MTA and FTA, no elected officials bothered to show up) from […]

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Metro-North Transit Adventures

A Metro-North Day Trip to New Haven on 3 M8s, a Shoreliner and a Wheels and Peter Pan Bus around the Accident Site.

Today I had to head up to New Haven for an important special occasion. This is the type of trip I wouldn’t have blogged about normally but with the Metro-North Crash on Friday closing off the entire New Haven Line between Westport to Bridgeport the Train-Bus-Train Transfer that we had to deal with made this […]

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Metro-North Transit Adventures

The Grand Central Centennial Parade of Trains

Today I attended (along with an estimated 40,000 other people, five times more than Metro-North expected, Didn’t Realize Trains are that popular!) Grand Central’s parade-of-trains. Yesterday I was in the area already had luckily made a round-trip on the Nostalgia SMEE Shuttle train yesterday (on track 1 using R15 #6239, R12 #5760, and R33WF #9306) […]

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Superstorm Sandy

The Seastreak New York to the Seastreak Martha’s Vineyard to the Rockaways. Back via the H Train to the Shuttle Bus to the A Train

Today I awoke to a nice Spring Day and a presentation to work on for my internship with the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center. What a better way to do both of these things and get some more H train photos and then a $2 ride on the temporary Rockaways Ferry. I’ve ridden the ferry twice […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Photos of the South Ferry Loop Station Reopened and Reconstruction Process

I am bad at keeping up with current NYC Transit events even if I’ve visited them. This update is all encompassing with all the photos I took of the South Ferry Stations and closure and reopening situation: Rector Street–(33 Photos) right after Superstorm Sandy the South Ferry-bound platform became an exit platform and the MTA […]